SOCIAL-DTN: Why Social Networking Services is more fruitful to Mobile Delay-Tolerant Networks?

Social networking plays an important role in future evolution and has extremely impacted the communication habits of people on the Internet. In this paper, we explore how social networking services is more fruitful to mobile delay-tolerant networks. We then present our prior works on delay-tolerant social networking platform. We emphasize the feasibility of delay-tolerant networks in supporting for social networking services.